BRIDGE/Country guides

It is planned to develop a comprehensive set of country guides on Appropedia. These will help to prepare and equip aid and development workers, both paid and voluntary, before and during their work, and act as a resource whenever needed.

You may start the country guide for a particular location (country or region). In time a structure will be developed.

Every "country guide" will include information on general issues of culture and preparation needs. Resources for aid and development workers is the starting point - perhaps a guide will simply point to this page, highlighting certain pages as essential reading.

Also some of these pages from Category:Culture and development will be important:

• Cultural exchange in international development
• Making and correcting mistakes
• Poverty, inequality and cruelty
• Rubber time

Depending on the intended project, some more specific pages will be useful:

• Cultural preferences in sanitation
• Food equity within the household

Click a redlink to start the new page, or start a page on a different country that you know about. Just add whatever information will be useful.

• Cambodia Country Guide
• Haiti Country Guide
• India Country Guide
• Indonesia Country Guide
• Laos Country Guide
• Maldives Country Guide
• Mexico Country Guide
• Nepal Country Guide
• Papua New Guinea Country Guide
• Philippines Country Guide
• Timor Leste Country Guide
• Vietnam Country Guide

• Wikitravel - not tailored towards people who want to do international development, but an excellent resource none the less
• Background reading: The relevant Wikipedia pages for the country, region and city or cities you are going to, plus the languages, cultural groups and history.